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Re: successfully built andinstalled gcc 3.0.4


On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 03:24:16PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Janis Johnson wrote:
> > In the future, please keep in mind that building in the source directory
> > is not supported.  Sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't.
> 
> Really?  I'm aware that we have been recommending against it, and I'm
> also aware that this is broken for libgcj, but I believe this has not
> been a general decision (and is therefore to be considered a bug).

Sorry, my mistake.  I've seen this discussed several times and thought
that the patch in http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-04/msg00102.html
had been approved.  We still "highly recommend" that the build directory
is not the same as the source directory rather than saying that they
"must" be different.

Janis


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